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A00055 Summary:

BILL NO	A00055
SAME AS	No Same As
SPONSOR	Quart
COSPNSR	Otis
MLTSPNSR
Amd 3602, Ed L
Enables public libraries to access employment preparation education (EPE) funds to provide adult literacy education; sets aside three million dollars to be awarded through a competitive grant process; provides that half of such appropriation shall be set aside for libraries serving a population of one million or more.

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A00055 Actions:

BILL NO	A00055
01/06/2021	referred to libraries and education technology
01/05/2022	referred to libraries and education technology

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A00055 Committee Votes:

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A00055 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           55
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  QUART, OTIS -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Libraries and Education Technology
 
        AN ACT to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to  enabling  public
          libraries  to  access  employment preparation education (EPE) funds to
          provide adult literacy instruction
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  11  of  section 3602 of the education law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph a-2 to read as follows:
     3    a-2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph a  of  this  subdivi-
     4  sion,  the  commissioner  shall  set  aside  an  amount of three million
     5  dollars to be awarded through a  competitive  grant  process  to  public
     6  libraries to provide any of the services authorized in this subdivision.
     7  However,  no  less than half the annual appropriation shall be set aside
     8  for public libraries serving a population of one million  or  more.  The
     9  commissioner shall have the authority to establish rules and regulations
    10  to implement the provisions of this paragraph.
    11    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
    12  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01619-01-1

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